Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine

The Korean Society for Reproductive Medicine (대한생식의학회)
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Clinical Usefulness of Circulating Antiendometrial Antibodies in Endometriosis

자궁내막증에서 순환 항자궁내막 항체의 유용성

  • Kim, Jung-Gu (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Chang-Soo (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi, Young-Min (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Shin, Chang-Jae (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Moon, Shin-Yong (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Chang, Yoon-Seok (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Jin-Yong (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University)
  • 김정구 (서울대학교 의과대학 산부인과학교실) ;
  • 박창수 (서울대학교 의과대학 산부인과학교실) ;
  • 최영민 (서울대학교 의과대학 산부인과학교실) ;
  • 신창재 (서울대학교 의과대학 산부인과학교실) ;
  • 문신용 (서울대학교 의과대학 산부인과학교실) ;
  • 장윤석 (서울대학교 의과대학 산부인과학교실) ;
  • 이진용 (서울대학교 의과대학 산부인과학교실)
  • Published : 1993.06.04
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Abstract

Antiendometrial antibodies were tested by passive hemagglutination assay(PHA) and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) in sera of 45 patients with endometriosis and 21 controls for the evaluation of its clinical usefulness. Both titers(reciprocal) of serum antiendometrial antibody by PHA and ELISA reactivity against endometrial antigens at 405nm were significantly higher in patients with endometriosis than in the control group. Of 45 patients with endometriosis, twenty-six(57.8%) by PHA and twenty-three(51.1%) by ELISA were determined antiendometrial antibody positive but none of the controls were positive. Antiendometrial antibody titers were followed up by PHA and ELISA in 14 patients with high antiendometrial antibody titers before and after treatment with Decapeptyl. There was a decreasing tendency of antiendometrial antibody titers after treatment but there was no statistical significance. These data suggest that the measurement of circulating antiendometrial antibody may be useful for the diagnosis but not for the follow up of endometriosis.

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